Don't try this at home : culinary catastrophes from the world's greatest chefs
2005
Book
Forty of the world's greatest chefs relate outrageous true tales from their kitchens. From hiring a blind line cook to flooding the room with meringue to being terrorized by a French owl, these behind-the-scenes accounts are as entertaining as they are revealing. A reminder that even the chefs we most admire aren't always perfect.--From publisher description.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781596910706
- 1596910704
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: 308 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
- Introduction
- Horror in Gerona / Ferran Adria
- All by myself / Jose Andres
- Meet David Bouley / Dan Barber
- The last straw / Mario Batali
- Two great tastes that taste great together / Michelle Bernstein
- Lean times at the Fat Duck / Heston Blumenthal
- On the road again / Daniel Boulud
- New Year's meltdown / Anthony Bourdain
- Ship of fools / Jimmy Bradley
- If you can't stand the heat / Scott Bryan
- White lie / David Burke
- A simple request / Samuel Clark
- The traveling chef / Tom Colicchio
- This whole place is slithering / Scott Conant
- Euphoria / Tamasin Day-Lewis
- Hope for snow / Tom Douglas
- Beastmaster / Wylie Dufresne
- The curious case of Tommy Flynn / Jonathan Eismann
- The blob / Claudia Fleming
- The blind line cook / Gabrielle Hamilton
- Genus Loci / Fergus Henderson
- (Not) ready for my close-up / Paul Kahan
- Just add water / Hubert Keller
- An Italian in Paris / Giorgia Locatelli
- A night at the opera / Michael Lomonaco
- A user's guide to opening a Hamptons Restaurant
- Mary Sue Milliken & Susan Feniger / Our big brake
- A chef in the family / Sara Moulton
- For the birds / Tamara Murphy
- Chef's table / Cindy Pawlcyn
- Our first Friday / Neil Perry
- Alibi / Michel Richard
- You really ought to think about becoming a waiter / Eric Ripert
- You're in the army now / Alain Sailhac
- The big chill / Marcus Samuelsson
- Neverland / Bill Telepan
- Friends and family / Laurent Tourondel
- The trojan cookie / Tom Valenti
- Shit happens / Norman van Aken
- The Michelin man / Geoffrey Zakarian
- The end of innocence / Jamie Oliver
- Acknowledgments
LCCN: 2005017992
Control Number: 148911
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Bloomsbury : Distributed by Holtzbrinck, 2005.